Contemporary housing struggles. A field of contention approach lessons from housing struggles in Budapest and Bucharest - By Florea (University of Gothenburg)
The lecture series "Inhabiting the Uninhabitable - Book Talks" is organised by professors
Camillo Boano, Francesco Chiodelli and Michele Lancione
Together with Agnes Gagy and Kerstin Jacobsson, we did an indepth contextual analysis of multiple forms of contention addressing housing issues, in Budapest and Bucharest, their (often unintentional) interactions, and their broader politicalstructural background. Looking at these two East European cities that fall outside the usual focus of urban movements research, we can find illuminating cases of how similar structural conditions (such as the financialization of housing and the resulting inequalities and expulsions, which are a central characteristic of capitalist crises), when governed by different political forces at the national and local scales, get politicized differently - that is, when they get politicized at all. I will share the most intriguing comparative lessons that we drew of housing contention in Budapest and Bucharest, followed throughout the period 2008-2021, through what we propose as a “structural field of contention” approach.
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